Honey Like

Chapter 19 (end)

Kinn was holding Porsche as he cried silently on his shoulder, while Nop was still on his knees watching the flames eating his boyfriend as the suffocating weight of helplessness and torment fell on his shoulder, "I'm so sorry, please forgive me Khun Vegas, I failed to protect your son, and I failed to protect my lover," he mumbled not even sure if anyone could hear him, especially vegas who looked out of his senses as he attempted to comfort Pete if that was even possible, "I don't think I can live with this weight khun, it was an honor to work by your side," the last words managed to get vegas' attention and the moment he raised his head nop was already pointing a gun at his head, "Nop!" "NOOOOOOOO" a loud cry came from the building and it sounded too familiar to Pete and Nop who immediately stood up looking around, "M-Macau,"

Earlier~

"HOLLY SHIT FINALLY," macau screamed as he finally managed to break free from the ropes, he untied venice quickly and that's when the sound of gunshots filled the place, the little boy got more scared and started crying louder, "It's okay venice we are leaving now," he carried him in his arms and fortunately the doors weren't locked, "not as smart as he looks," he opened the door and ran away holding venice tightly, he went inside of the building and headed to the second floor and covered venice's ears praying that things would go down soon but instead a loud explosion came and he covered the boy with his body protectively, "what the fuck was that," he stayed there for a good 20 minutes not sure whether he should go out yet, after a while the place went calm and he could hear someone crying loudly, he walked around the building until he reached the other side where the cries got louder and clearer that even venice recognized them, "pa! Venice want pa and daddy," he called for them and macau ran to one of the windows and the moment he looked outside he spotted his boyfriend on the floor looking so broken, he was about to call him but the next thing he knew nop put a gun against his head,

"PUT THAT FUCKING GUN DOWN YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE," He screamed running outside of the building with Venice in his arms, pete felt like someone poured cold water on him when he saw the two, "Venice..." "Pa!" His son called for him reaching for him with his little arms "Oh my God Venice!" Pete ran to him though his legs were shaking and could barely carry him, he took him from Macau and hugged him as if his life depended on it, "Pa!" "I'm here baby, papa is here, I'm so sorry I was late, but you are fine, you're fine my baby," he started kissing him and sniffing him taking in his scent, on the other side, vegas, who looked like he might faint at any moment, walked to them after he finally managed to move his body, "Daddy I'm scared," Venice called for him and he finally snapped back to reality, he took him in his arms and pulled him closer feeling his little heart beating against his chest, "It's over baby, it's all over, you're with daddy now no need to be scared anymore," he kept mumbling reassuring words and rubbing his back soothingly with one hand while the other was wrapped around Pete.

Nop was watching Macau as he walked towards him fuming, "How fucking dare you! Were you going to die on me nop!?" "But I thou- the car-" "what car!?" It was only at that moment Macau noticed that the car was burning, "fucking hell...that explains the explosion," Nop raised his shaking hand and put it on Macau's face, "you have no idea how scared I was, my soul was already burning in hell and my life had no meaning. thank you for getting out of that car mac, thank you for coming back to me," he kissed him slowly feeling him closer, vegas had a big question mark on his face and it made pete chuckle, Macau pulled back a little and he was feeling the adrenaline withdrawing from his veins leaving him shaking under nop's touch, "I was so scared, I thought we were gonna die, and when I finally escaped I find you holding a fucking gun to your head!" Nop laughed slightly and hugged him, "I'm sorry, you were so brave and strong and I couldn't even get to the car to help you," "Let's just forget about it there's no use blaming ourselves now, but I swear to God if I ever catch you doing some dumb shit like this I will kill you myself," "I won't, not as long as you're in my arms,"

the bodyguards left the place along with Kinn and Porsche, "let's leave too before it gets dark," Pete said, and they went to the car, venice was fast asleep in Vegas's arms, both hands firmly gripping his neck, "Nop can you drive? I don't think I can leave him," "Of course khun," Nop said then looked at Macau, "I'll see you later tonight," he kissed him then they all got in their cars.
Pete sat next to Vegas in the back seats, his head was rested on his shoulder and his eyelids were getting heavier but he was still too anxious to sleep, he was caressing Venice's hair softly as a way to calm himself, "My poor baby, he must've been so scared, look at his puffy eyes, he's too small to be dealing with all of this," he was talking as his brain was slowly drifting to sleep, vegas kissed his forehead and held his hand playing with his fingers, "he's safe now, you can rest baby, I've got you both now, and I'm not letting you go," and with that Pete finally surrendered to sleep as Venice's soft snores caressed his ears like a lullaby.

They stopped at the hospital first to check on Venice and treat Vegas's hand, the little boy refused to leave his parents but thankfully he didn't seem to have any injuries, unlike Vegas who damaged his knuckles badly, "I'm fine Pete, it will heal in no time," he said after he noticed that Pete was pale as a wall, sitting next to him as the nurses cleaned his wound and gave him pain medication, pete threw him a little smile which the other returned and after the treatment was done they left the hospital.

Later in the late evening, vegas was sitting in the bathtub hoping the warm water would relax his tensed muscles, after a while the door opened and Pete walked in with the last remaining energy in him, he took off his clothes and got in the bathtub sitting between vegas' legs, "I'm so exhausted," he said as he lay on his stomach against vegas' body who wrapped his arms around him, "I know, me too, did he sleep?" "Yes, I showered him and tried to make him eat something, but he refused, he just wanted to stay in my arms until he fell asleep again," "He's still distressed, we all are but, we will move on, together, we just need some time" "mmm," Pete was slowly drifting away as vegas' heart was beating in his ears steadily, taking him to a world where he can finally feel calm again. Vegas got them out of the bathroom and put some clothes on Pete careful not to wake him up, then he dried his hair and tucked him in bed after he got dressed too, he covered him and Venice very well and got in bed too, he watched his son sleeping peacefully as his mind was settling to the fact that he's alive, and he's next to him, he planted a kiss on his forehead and did the same to Pete, and little by little he gave up to the tiredness and let his brain take him away, perhaps to a place free of worries and pain, though he doubts any dream would be better than his reality no matter how chaotic it is, it's still his and he will welcome the bitter and the sweet that it brings him.

-The End-
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